[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, “No, I’m a Pacino. That’s my name.”
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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